will survive this latest scandal. chris christie blame president trump s transition team. chris christie ran the transition until the president replaced him with vice president mike pence about a month before nominati nominating scott pruitt. so pruitt has to go? i don t know how you survive this one. if he has to go, it s because he never should have been there in the first place. shepard: the former governor of new jersey. pruitt says he did not violate any federal ethics rules. pruitt was facing questions about flying first class on the taxpayer s dime and spending $43,000 to build a secure phone booth at the epa to make confidential calls. trace gallagher with the rest of the story. we should note hotels go from anywhere 400 to $500.
try to block former director comey from temperaturing before the senate intelligence committee on thursday. he could do that. there s a question as to how strong his legal case is since he s to a certain degree waived executive privilege by making comments, sending out tweets. even in his dismissal letter characterizing the conversation where he claimed comey said he s not part of the investigation. so it s not to say it s protected but you have this dramatic testimony by james comey thursday. he was asked, sean spicer, today, and i think earlier in the week as to whether or not the president was going to invoke executive privilege to block it temporarily. he said that hasn t been decided yet. shepard: we ll know when we know. chris wallace, host of fox news sunday. a big fox news sunday coming this weekend. set your dvrs for this one.
veterans. the other bill, the public safety officer s benefits improvement act. officials say the goal of that one is to help the justice department speed up processing of officers death and disability claims. are they getting some questions, too? let s listen. congress created the program in the 70s. critics say there s too many delays in getting money to officers and families. the event was just streaming at foxnews.com. more on fbi director comey who is set to testify. that is if the president attempts to block him by using executive privilege. here s matt from the washington post who covers the justice department. he wrote an article on five things to watch for when comey testifies in the paper in the
pros, some of the best pros in the world sitting in this room. you understand it. it s a process. now, i ve always liked it because it gave people that could go through that process an advantage, like jerry, but it gave us an advantage if you could get through the process. but getting a building [ inaudible ] horrible thing, and that s nothing compared to when you get into the highways and the dams. they don t even talk about dams anymore. you know, hydropower is a great, great form of power. we don t even talk about it, because to get the environmental permits are virtually impossible. it s one of the best things you can do hydro but we don t talk about it anymore. so, we ve come to a halt. we have a tremendous person that we ve put in charge of epa, scoot pruitt, who is an environmental person. he wants clean air, clean water, but he doesn t think it takes you 26 years to get a permit to build a building and to have jobs, at which time those companies are usually gone, out
from our charlie gasparino who is coming up that there might be a bit of agreement with the republican leadership and the renegade conservative whose torpedoed the healthcare deal. first, sara is at the white house with what is going on with the focus of team trump today i guess on jobs, jobs, huh? where the white house has been most successful, the economic agenda. that s where the trump administration wanted the spot light today. president trump said the builder s union event down the road in washington was going on and he met with scoot pruitt and steve mnuchin. both of those cabinet members will be key to his deregulation policies. that s where the focus of trump s economic agenda has been. deregulation is the backbone of everything trump wants to do